WikiAfrica

WikiAfrica is a project to increase the quality and quantity of African content on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.

WikiAfrica is an international movement that takes place on the African continent and beyond. It encourages individuals, interested groups and organisations to create, expand and enhance online content about Africa. This involves motivating for the representation of the continent’s contemporary realities and history, its peoples and its innovations on the world’s most used encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. WikiAfrica is not owned by one organisation and it belongs to all people and organisations contributing to its scope.

WikiAfrica uses a number of interventions to create, expand and enhance online content and representation of Africa, its history, people, innovations and contemporary realities, on the world’s most used encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. WikiAfrica seeks to support Wikipedia as a free and open encyclopaedia that truthfully provides access to information about Africa. The project’s interventions are aimed at both uploading and expanding content that already resides in heritage, cultural and academic institutions across Africa, as well as activating, training and supporting a self-sustaining new generation of Wikipedian editors from across the continent, able to generate new articles and subjects relevant to contemporary Africa.